καρπός

From Proto-Hellenic *kərpós or *karpós, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“pluck, harvest”), though debated whether via inheritance or borrowing from a different Indo-European branch due to the problematic α (a) in the Greek form.^[1] Compare Proto-Germanic *harbistaz (“harvest, autumn”), Proto-Slavic *čerpti (“to scoop, draw”) and Latin carpō (“to pick”), as well as Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”). More at Etymology 2 below.

Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀏𐀡 (ka-po).

κᾰρπός • (kărpós) m (genitive κᾰρποῦ); second declension (Attic, Epic, Ionic, Doric, Koine)

1. fruit; grain; produce; harvest
2. the product of something:
   1. children (fruit of the body)
   2. poetry (fruit of the mind)
   3. profit

• → Aromanian: carpo
• → Coptic: ⲕⲁⲣⲡⲟⲥ (karpos)
• Greek: καρπός (karpós)
• Mariupol Greek: карпо́ (karpó)
• → Turkish: karpuz
• → English: carpo-

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *kʷerp- (“to turn”), and related to Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”) (whence English wharf). Other theories take the origin to be the same as that of Etymology 1.^[2]

κᾰρπός • (kărpós) m (genitive κᾰρποῦ); second declension

2. wrist

• Greek: καρπός (karpós)
• → New Latin: carpus (learned)
  • → English: carpus (learned)

• “καρπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καρπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “καρπός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “καρπός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• καρπός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• καρπός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “καρπός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2590 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cereals idem, page 122.
  • corn idem, page 174.
  • crop idem, page 185.
  • fruit idem, page 347.
  • harvest idem, page 387.
  • produce idem, page 644.
  • standing idem, page 811.
  • wrist idem, page 993.
  • yield idem, page 996.
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014), “page-323”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume I, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
• Kroonen, Guus (2013), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• καρπός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈpos/

From Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (kărpós, “fruit, grain”).

καρπός • (karpós) m (plural καρποί)

1. fruit, grain

• see: ακαρπία f (akarpía, “fruitlessness, barrenness”)

→ Aromanian: carpo.

From Ancient Greek κᾰρπός (kărpós, “wrist”).

καρπός • (karpós) m (plural καρποί)

1. (anatomy) wrist

• φρούτο (froúto, “fruit”)

• καρπός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language